Anti-rail-spreader.



W. G. WILSON & N. L. JONES;

ANTl-RAlL-SPREADER. APPLICATIONFILED AUG.25. 1916.

1,216,903. Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

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WILLIAM G. WILSON, or wnsr NEW BRIGI-ITGN, AND nns'ron L. iTONES, orivIAnInnns HARBOR, NEW YORK.

' ANTI-nAIL-srnnADER.

Patented Feb.2o, 191*7.

Application filed August 25, 1916. Serial No. 116,929.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM G, VVILsoN and Nnsron L. JONES, citizens of the United- States, residing at West New Brighton and Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, 'respectively, in the county of Richmond and State of New York, have invented new and use ful Improvements in Anti-Rail-Spreaders,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to anti-rail spreaders, and has for its principal object the provision of a device of this character which will be adapted for use upon railway track structures, for the purpose of positively holding the rails against relative'separation whereby to minimize the possibility of the rolling stock leaving the track.

Another; object of the invention resides in, the-provision of an anti-rail spreader whichv may be expeditiously applied to or removed from the rails; one which will consist of mating sections adapted to be bolted together, and meansfor preventing longitudinal relative movements of the said sections so as to prevent the shearing of the bolts incident to the side strains which are applied to the rails by the rolling stock In the drawings v Figure 1, is a vertical section through the two rails of a track structure, showing the application of the invention thereto.

Fig. 2, is a plan view thereof.

Fig. 3, is a section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1. v V Fig. 4c, is a perspective view of one of the mating sections of the device.

The device consists of two mating sections 1 1 and 2, each stamped from a single piece of metal of the same uniform thickness throughout. r r

The member 1, is providedwith a pair of clamping or securing lugs 33 Which extend vertically from the upper edge of said section and as shown these lugs are pro= vided with angular faces 4, adapted to conform with the angle of the upper surfacesv of the base flanges of the rails. The section 2, is provided with similar lugs 55 which are adapted to be associated with the lugs 33 so that coinjointly all of the lugs cooperate as a common clamp to engage rails in a manner hereinafter described. The lugs 5-5 extend in an opposite direction to the lugs 33.

The section 1, is provided with right angularly disposed end flanges 6 6 which are adapted to extend across the vertical ends of the section 2, when the latter is operatively applied to the'rails. Both of said sections 1 and 2 are provided with openings 7, through which clamping bolts 8, are adapted to pass. The bolts are employed for the purpose of holding the sections against relative lateral separation. Incident to the many side strains which are applied to the rails under the weight of the rolling stock, the bolts 8, are subjected to slight shearing action of the plate sections 1 and 2. We materially reduce the shearing action of the sections 1 and 2, by forming the lugs or extensions 6-6 upon the plate 1. When the bolts. are clamped tightly, the section 2, is moved against the section 1, causing the vertical ends of the former to come directly behind the lugs 66 as will be understood.

Any suitable number of the devices may be arranged upon the rails according to the particular necessity, and in practice it will be found that with the exercise of reasonable discretion an application of comparatively few of the devices upon the track will positively hold the rails against creeping or relative separation or spreading.

Ifdesired strips of insulating material may be interposed between the sections 1 and 2, and between the lugs33 and 5-5, and otherwise suitably associated with the lugs or with the plates to form a proper insulation, when the device is used upon electrically charged rails.

In applying the device the section 1, is first slipped under the rails by moving and slightly canting the same. The lugs 3,. are then extended over the baseflanges of the rails at one side thereof. The next section 2, isthen applied so that the lugs 5-5 come over upon the base flanges at the opposite sides thereof. At such time the openings 7, in both of the mentioned sections 1 and 2, will be alined so that the bolts can be passed therethrough, for the purpose hereinbefore referred to.

What is'claimed as new is An anti-rail spreader comprising two mating plates of an equal thickness throughout and each of said plates at its upper edge and adjacent its ends being formed with lugs, the lugs upon the respective plates adapted to cooperate With the lugs adjacent thereto to engage with the rail, the outer rail engaging lug of each of the plates being received in the fishing space of the rail which it engages whereby the upper edge both of the plates and serving to confine the hook-shapedlugs in operative position upon the rails and also to hold the angular ends of one of the plates against separating from the Vertically straight ends of the other plate.

In testimony whereof We afiix our signatures.

WILLIAM G. *WILSON. NESTOR L. JONES.

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